# The Weekend (1999) - Brian Skeet Film

Peter Cameron is an American novelist and short-story writer. He published his first short story for The New Yorker in 1983 & would later contribute to the magazine for many years. His first book, One Way or Another , is a short story compilation that was published in 1986. His debut novel, Leap Year , was published at the start of the 1990s. His follow-up, The Weekend , was published in 1994 & received much acclaim, so much so that it was adapted into a film directed by Brian Skeet. Brian Skeet is an English director who started out working for the BBC, directing multiple episodes in the documentary series Omnibus . He collaborated with Simon Curtis & Peter Sellars on directing various theater productions: Performance , starring John Malkovich & The Merchant of Venice , starring Philip Seymour Hoffman After leaving the BBC, he made his first short, The Boy Who Fell In Love . He would later make his first feature, The Misadventures of Margaret , a musical comedy starring Parker Posey, which was featured at the Sundance Film Festival. The Weekend would be his follow-up film, and he managed to assemble quite a cast: Gena Rowlands, Brooke Shields, Deborah Kara Unger, Jared Harris, D.B. Sweeney & James Duval. The film was at the festival circuit in 1999, & managed to win an award at the Seattle International Film Festival for Best Ensemble Cast. The film was released on November 22, 2000, in LA & New York. Over the years, the film has languished in obscurity, with its only…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1999
- By: Brian Skeet
- Genres: Drama
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the-weekend-1999)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/the-weekend-1999?play=1)